London-based group Ashley Bates, Becky Jacobs, Martin Smith, Mike Lindsay, Phill Winter & Sam Genders / song about the Boston Tea Party, a protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated & angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the 1st major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists & to protest British taxation without representation, and rallied American patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence.

AKA Jean-Emmanuel Krieger / took his name from the secret Soviet launch site that launched the 1st successful space launch from Baikonur, which was also the first successful space launch of a satellite - Sputnik-1, that left Earth on Oct. 4, 1957. The cosmodrome only officially received the name "Baikonur," however, after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into space on April 12, 1961 — also a world first. Rather than reveal the location of the facility, the Soviet Union achieved its world record by telling the International Aviation Federation that it had launched from the town of Baikonur.

comp. / orig from 1992 album, "Up In Downsville" on Robs Records / band took their name from the lyrics of Brian Eno's song "The True Wheel" (from Eno's 2nd album, "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)," released in 1974)

"Einsturzende Neubauten" translates to "Collapsing New Buildings," where "New Buildings" describes a type of architecture common in post-WWII Germany (large concrete box-style buildings) & "Collapsing: in an adjective in this context (not a verb) / band formed in 1980 in West Berlin